The World Health Organization called for countries to keep calm and take “rational” measures in response to the new, fast-spreading Covid variant Omicron, which has sparked global panic. “We call on all member states to take rational, proportional ris…

South Africa recorded 4 373 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, of which 3 143 were reported in Gauteng alone.According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this means there is now a total number of 2 968 052 laboratory-confirmed case…

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) will release the General Household Survey, 2020 (GHS) results on Thursday, 2 December 2021 in Pretoria. The social and household service delivery report provides a snapshot of progress achieved in basic government ser…

As the country commemorates World Aids Day, the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has expressed concern about the vulnerability of young women to the HIV epidemic in South Africa.The country’s statistics show that HIV prevalence among young pregnant…

Despite all the strides made in the fight against HIV and AIDS, the country continues to suffer setbacks in human progress.These include teenage pregnancy, gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF), stigmatisation of those who are HIV positive, killing…